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“Though not outright proof on its face” is where the heuristics from the conversation would inform next steps. Plagiarism of…
I can’t speak to what LLMs and AI in general might be capable of now or in the future. What…
I think that Kaufman is probably wrong about AI’s capacity for original research but concern about universities survives and even…
“said explicitly that AI will simply accelerate something that is already happening.” – The metaphor people use is “force multiplier”…
(Sorry, I feel I’m becoming the gadfly in this conversation!) Regarding 1: I learned to take the ‘demographics is destiny’…
Yeah, I clocked this one right away as almost surely AI. Given the username, I should allow that it *might*…
Apologies if I’m reading you uncharitably, but it sounds like you are advocating for course failure and later expulsion on…
Last time we blogged, I was asked by a few people somewhat bemused by what I wrote what message I was trying to communicate by my
blogging. I don’t have a
message to communicate by my blogging. I’m certainly not blogging because I
think I have any brilliant insights (if I think I have a brilliant insight, I try to write a paper or a book). It should be obvious, but I’ll say it anyhow: the
point of my blogging is to entertain people who are procrastinating.
-Jason
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